Tag: 2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Neel’s Goat
You can only have an actor attached for so long until they "grow" out of the role and you can only have a director...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matthew Ross’ Frank and Lola
Will the real Matt Ross please stand up. Don't be all that surprised if Matt Ross (28 Hotel Rooms, Captain Fantastic) and Matthew Ross wind...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rafael Palacio Illingworth’s The Force
Shot in June in Los Angeles, The Force features Olivia Thirlby and Ben Feldman in the pole position as newly married urbanites with a...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ian Olds’ The Fixer
It would be a futile exercise to try to pigeonhole this filmmaker into one category and just looking at the work samples that have...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anna Rose Homer’s The Fits
Venice Film Festival Biennale College – Cinema sidebar is like a low-lying fruit tree that hasn't yet been picked, and from the past two...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nicolas Pesce’s The Eyes of My Mother
Supported by the same folks who brought us Mona Fastvold's The Sleepwalker (Sundance 2014) and accompanied by the Borderline Films crew (who need no...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Madeleine Olnek’s Emily Dickinson Project
What the trades tell us and what is fact are not mutually exclusive. 11th hour film submissions at the Sundance Film Festival do occur --- the...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mike Birbiglia’s Don’t Think Twice
Prior to his 2012 Sundance Institute supported/Sundance Film Festival debuted film based on both his one-man show and novel of the same name, we...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ross Bros.’ Contemporary Color
With their unique vérité aesthetic brand, one that shuffles the deck of conventional docu-filmaking rules and techniques (our Jordan M. Smith recently called it...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Antonio Campos’ Christine
If Cannes' Thierry Frémaux doesn't snag it away first, we might be chalking this unsettling piece of cinema as yet another Park City homecoming...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Brady Corbet’s The Childhood of a Leader
If included, it would count as one of the rare Venice preemed North American premiere debuts and uncommon 35mm treats at the fest. After...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Victoria Mahoney’s Chalk Rx
She was on solid grounds workshopping her debut film at multiple Sundance Institute labs and it yielded notable stops at the Berlin, SXSW, Deauville...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matt Ross’ Captain Fantastic
Still relatively new in the distrib game, Bleecker Street has been keen on including film fest premieres for their individual film release strategies and...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Hager Ben-Asher’s The Burglar
It might be wishful thinking on our part to think that Hager Ben-Asher would somehow submit her sophomore film in January instead of holding...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jessica Dimmock & Christopher Lamarca’s Brick
More than any other period in film history, the popularity for the docu-form means we are in its healthiest and perhaps most inundated moment. With various quality...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ana Lily Amirpour’s The Bad Batch
She became an instant rockstar when A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (a film that we'll affectionally look back at in two decades from...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Deb Shoval’s AWOL
With one of last year's Sundance intoxicatingly cute natured discoveries in Lola Kirke (from Noah Baumbach's Mistress America) toplining, the reasonable five-year morphing phase into a...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Carson Mell’s Another Evil
Those in the know (his following might have discovered him via his pair of novels in The Blue Bourbon Orchestra and Saguaro) appreciate his off...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Shaz Bennett’s Alaska is a Drag
Shaz Bennett has her own unique history with the Sundance Film Festival having worked for them as a programmer before it was even known...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mark Elijah Rosenberg’s Ad Inexplorata
Naturally the post production process can be a lengthier one when latticeworking critical sci-fi elements with technical aspects. As is the nature with our set of...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mike Ott/Nathan Silver’s Actor Martinez
As was the case for Joe Swanberg, it's not unheard of that trailblazing names synonymous with micro American indie film fail to crack the...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tobias Lindholm’s A War
Despite his lengthy filmography as a scribe (mostly Thomas Vinterberg's righthand man Submarino, The Hunt and upcoming The Commune) and his previous outings as...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andy Goddard’s A Kind of Murder
Climbing up the ranks with mostly writing and directing television gigs (this includes a handful of "Downton Abbey" episodes), Andy Goddard flew under the radar...
2016 Sundance Film Festival 75 Predictions List: An Introduction
Whether you are a filmmaker, or one of the Sundance programmers whose task it is to identify the films that make up a line-up,...
